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Back when President Obama secured the Democratic nomination, I posted a pic of him from his 2004 Senate campaign. Here it is again: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Notice the poster hanging on the wall? It’s from the famous Ali/Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in 1974, also known as the rope-a-dope fight. If you haven’t…

A couple weeks ago I asked for your help on behalf of a friend. At the time, the important next step was securing a couple Republican co-sponsors for the legislation introduced by Sen. Schumer. Many of you called Sen. Brown’s office, as he’d indicated he was open to the idea. Great news: Sen. Brown is…

A year in the making, we just released the new template designer on Blogger. The announcement is at the Official Google Blog, and additional posts at Blogger Buzz and the Blogger in Draft blog provide more detail about what’s up. I’ve just updated my design, so if you haven’t been to the site in a…

Last fall, I spoke at the Internet Summit on a panel with Richard Jalichindra, the CEO at Technorati. They had recently relaunched Technorati, and his continuation of founder David Sifry’s “state of the blogosphere” was a good take on what was new on blogs. His data mirrored what we see at Blogger: there are more…

I don’t upload a lot of video to YouTube, but that’s going to change. Two nights ago, as we were preparing to launch the FTP Migration Tool, I wanted to do a quick video walk-through to show users how it would work. The video’s 8 minutes long, and I was excited to get it done…

Kevin Kuwik, one of my brother’s best friends from Notre Dame, is a remarkable guy. He’s currently a basketball coach at Ohio State who served in Iraq (more on that here), but that’s not what I’m writing about today. Last year, on the day before his brother’s wedding in Buffalo, Kevin’s girlfriend was flying to…

Almost exactly four years ago (crap, seems like yesterday!) Fred wrote about his first experience with Sonos. He summed up the experience pretty well: [The Sonos system] delivered a premium experience for me and if you are looking for a simple, elegant solution for integrating digital music and music services like Rhapsody and Internet radio…

When I ran the publisher team at FeedBurner, I made it a habit to watch for any discussions about FeedBurner. Back in those days, there was a fair amount of concern about using a third party to syndicate your RSS feed – would we force ads into every post? Would we start charging? What if…

Reading Marc Ambinder’s recap of President Obama’s “question time” at a GOP event today, it reminded me of one of my favorite West Wing scenes: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT0AP3Nqvuo&hl=en_US&fs=1&&w=480&h=385] I’ve refrained from discussing politics on this blog for a long time, which surprises many who followed me through the 2004 and 2006 election, and to a lesser…

Several years ago, I put my CV online as a wiki. It started as a way to just catalog the speeches I’d given, articles I’d written, etc., if for no other reason to have it all in one place. As I noted at the time, one of the most popular pages on my blog was…